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Adrian Warburton P-38

Posted by Paul McMillan on Tue Sep 10, 2002 06:06:54 AM

Picked this up from Allied and Soviet

This is a Google Translation from the original German!

"those are not treasures, but scrap iron"
Circle homeland male nurse Anton Huber excavates an English hunt machine, which fell 1944 with Egling
By our coworker Thomas miracle

Egling

Circle homeland male nurse Anton Huber stands in the midst of a large pit and clears away with a small spoon centimeter for centimeter soil. Slowly a rusty plate shows up. Armoring an airplane cockpit, assumes Huber. The standing around, which came here on the field southeast from Egling, take up Hubers statement interested. For Monday Huber digs here. Which it looked for, it found. A Lockheed P-38l Lightning, which bored itself on 12 April 1944 into the field close Egling. The pilot, the Englishman Adrian Warburton, had been led since then as "missed".

Huber is not first, which looks for the machine. Immediately after the crash the armed forces had looked for the probably unarmed reconnaissance aircraft and had also found. But the wreck was again filled up, as Hermann Laage knows to report from the VdK to. Afterwards one - probably in the year 1946 - searched with approximately 20 Romanians, tells Huber, which relies on eye-witness reports.

Eye-witnesses tell

It can give more information against it over an excavation in the context of the consolidation of farmland 1951/52. A wing had been carried plus engine (V-1710-111/113 v-engine) to the daylight - more not. Also an English Kokarde was found at that time, in the place is told.

Meanwhile appear themselves ever more Eglinger in the "crash place" - also eye-witnesses. To their narrations Anton Huber listens attentively. So far, thus Huber, he heard four versions of the crash. The Landsberger it assumes circle homeland male nurses that the 11.53 meters long hunt single-seaters (span of 15.85 meters) with a clearing-up flight over the military airport on the Lechfeld by a German Flak was met. Afterwards the pilot flew toward Egling, where the machine fell into the field. "we had fear that the airplane goes, describes in the place to soil" an eye-witness. The time of the crash is well-known: 11,45 o'clock whether the reconnaissance aircraft now perpendicularly or flat into the earth bored themselves, there go the opinions apart.

Pointed name "Warby"

Rather surely itself the aviation historians are however concerning the identity of the pilot. It probably concerns on 10 March 1918 in Middlesborough born Adrian Warburton. The pilot of the Royal air Force (RAF) applied in the English public as a war hero and had the pointed name "Warby". Now it is to be clarified perfectly that it concerns with the pilot of the Eglinger machine evenly this Adrian Warburton.

Anton Huber, which opens the straight trunk of the airplane, already brought bones to day. A piece of the inch as well as the upper or Unterschenkels. The bone parts are collected and handed over then an official the criminal investigation department Fuerstenfeldbruck. "our task is the identification of the dead one", determines Rupert Kramer of the criminal investigation department. With the help of the bones an DNA analysis one accomplish. Later won the data are to be compared with those the survivor member Warburtons.

With the exact determination of the crash place Kramer Huber was helpful. With a law enforcement helicopter it flew over the fields southeast from Egling. Helpfully also an aerial photo was the US Army from 18 July 1944, on which the point of impact is to be seen exact. However: By the consolidation of farmland the situation of the fields and ways changed. Huber had to take up thus still the assistance of the modern surveying. The mass of the aerial photograph admission to a current corridor plan were transferred and measured out then. "we became fast fuendig", say Huber, which had begun with two aids at the Monday morning to ditch.

The circle homeland male nurse bears the cost of the excavation alone. Found the wreck parts are not anything worth, like that Huber. "those are not treasures, but scrap iron." He wants to wash the wreck parts later, in order to be able to find perhaps production numbers. "one of it originates from a factory in Chikago", Huber already found out.

21.08.2002

Original Article for those who read German!

http://www.landsberger-tagblatt.de/Portal/start?pagename=index&sptnid=984050635631&arid=1029811493346

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